‘(AH-I/I6/English-I(N&O) B.A., Part-I (Honours) Examination, 2016 Subject : English Paper : 1 Times 4 Hours Full Marks: 100 The figures in the margin indicate full marks. Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words 4s far as practicable, New Syllabus Unit I 1. Answer any one of the following questions: 10x1=10 (a) Give an account of Old English Heroic Poetry. (b) Assess the contribution of Chaucer in the history of English literature. (©) Discuss the impact of Reformation on English social history. 2x2=4 2. Answer any two of the following questions: (a) Why are the years 1066 and 1380 important? (b) Name two books translated by King Alfred. (©) Name two morality plays. (@)_ Who wrote The Spanish Tragedy and in which year was it published? Unit 11 3. Answer any two of the following questions: (a) Critically analyse Spenser's sonnet “My Love is like to ice, and I to fire”.. (b) How does Shakespeare represent the idea of immortality through verse in Sonnet 18? (©) Discuss Donne’s “The Canonization” as a metaphysical poem. (@) Discuss how Marvell combines wit, argument and passion in his poem “To His Coy Mistress” 10x2=20 4, Explain, with reference to the context, any two of the following excerpts and add a critical note: (442)x2=12 (a) So let us love, deare Love, lyke we ought, Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught. (b) Draw in thy beams and humble all thy might To that sweet yoke where lasting freedoms be; Which breaks the clouds and opens forth the light, That both doth shine and give us sight to see (©) This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, To love that well which thou must leave ere long. (@)_ Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one Please Turn OverAH-I/16/English-I(N&O) @ 5. Answer any four of the following questions: cme (a) Bring out the significance of the phrase “heart frozen cold”. (b) What does the poet mean by “studying inventions fine”? (©) What does Sidney yearn for in his sonnet “Leave me, O Love”? (4) “Summer's lease hath all too short a date”—Explain. (©) “In me thou see’st the twilight of such day"—Why does the poet say so? (f) Comment on the allusion to “seven sleepers’ den” in “The Good Morrow”. (g) “We die and rise the same, and prove/Mysterious by this love”—Explain. (h) What is suggested by “vegetable love”? Unit HI 6. Answer any two of the following questions: 10x2=20 (a) Justify the appropriateness of the title A Midsummer Night's Dream. (b) Analyse the dramatic significance of the play-within-the-play in A Midsummer Night's Dream. (©) Examine the role of Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream. (d)_Bring out the significance of the role of Brainworm in Every Man in His Humour. (©) Discuss Every Man in His Humour as a ‘comedy of Humours’. 7. Explain, with reference to the context, any two of the following excerpts and add a critical note: (442)x2=12 (a) I beg the ancient privilege of Athens, As she is mine, I may dispose of her; (b) The poet’s eye, in fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; (c) I'd have you sober, and contain yourself, Not that your sail be bigger than your boat; But moderate your expenses now, at first, ‘As you may keep the same proportion still; (d) It shall be discourse for supper between your father and me, if he dare undertake me. 8 Answer any three of the following questions: 326 (a) Why does Bottom want a prologue written for the play? (b) “Tie up my love's tongue, bring him silently”. —Who is the speaker? Why does he say so? (©) Briefly comment on the purpose of Puck's last speech. (4) “The first words/wve form their tongues with are licentious jests concerned about? (©) What is the predominant humour in Bobadill? (f) What is the meaning of the phrase ‘absurd coxcomb’? ", What social ailment is the speaker(G3) AH-I/16/English-I(N&O) Unit IV % Ww rite short notes on any two of the following terms: 4x228 (@) Hamartia () Catharsis (©) Unities (d) Picaresque novel Old Syllabus Section A 2x8=16 1. Answer any eight of the following questions: @) (b) © dd) © wo @) (hy @ oa (Kk) a (m) @) 2. Answer any three of the following questions: @ (b) (©) @) © oO Mention two Anglo-Saxon poems of the pre-Christian age. Mention two foreign influences on Chaucer's writings. Name two morality plays. Who is the author of The Faerie Queene? When was it published? Name two of Christopher Marlowe's plays. Name two Puritan poets of the seventeenth century. Who wrote the Essay of Dramatic Poesy? Name a tragedy by the same author. Give two examples of philosophical writing in the seventeenth century. Who are the authors of the Lyrical Ballads? Name two periodicals of the eighteenth century. Name two works by the Victorian poets. Mention two plays by Bernard Shaw. What was the nationality of Joseph Conrad? Name a work by him. Who wrote Murder in the Cathedral? What Kind of play is it? {(1042)/(2+10)}x3=36 Write an essay on Anglo-Saxon elegiac poetry. Name two pre-christian poems of the Old English period. Briefly discuss the ‘Prologue’ to The Canterbury Tales as a representation of contemporary society Which famous French poem was translated by Chaucer into English? Who were the University Wits? Write a note on any one of them. part of the eighteenth century called the Augustan Age in English literature? Why is the early Comment on the literary tasté of the period with particular reference to Alexander Pope. of one major Victorian novelists. Name a woman novelist of the period and ‘Assess the contribution one of her works. Write a critical note on the drama of Harold Printer. Name two other contemporary dramatists. Please Turn Over